Very interesting technique

[C-Bag]

I’m not in any way a jewelry kinda guy but this would not be the first time I’ve picked up a technique from a different field. The info presented here is called foldforming and especially the last technique I found very interesting. I’m still gathering tools and skills for a weathervane project for my SO that will be brass and copper sheet so this will apply directly to that project. It also explains some techniques I’ve seen that I wondered how they did it. The site associated with it cool tools is worth checking out too.

 

[Eddyde]

An interesting process though I disagree with the claim that it's "The first new metal-forming process in the last 100 years". Hydroforming, would be one other process that comes to mind but I'd bet there are more.

 

[C-Bag]

Yeah I was quite stunned by that assertion too. But I just passed it off as unaware. I’m more of the school of “there’s nothing new under the sun” as I wander through the different disciplines. I did find it interesting and wouldn’t have ever done something like that on my own as I’m always trying to fix folds and creases to look like smooth unmolested metal.

 

[Eddyde]

“there’s nothing new under the sun”

Yeah, I'm skeptical this is a really totally new technique. In the thousands of years of copper work no one did this before, seems unrealistic.